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Jennifer Savran Kelly
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Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · Jul 15
Ahhh! I'm so excited to share my inflatable dad story in Short Story, Long! Who could ask for a more thoughtful editor than @aaronburch.bsky.social and a more fitting artist than ‪@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social? (No one, that's who!) ‬
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I'll take the furious vulva please
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November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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They’re just sitting around, pedos being pedos, when the alarm goes off and it’s time to complain about the blacks.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h
Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.
From: Steve Bannon I Sent: 4/23/2019 4:06:36 PM To: Michael Wolff _________________________________1 CC: Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Announcing the 2019 Hillman Prize winners Importance: High Fix always in On Apr 23, 2019, at 9:06 AM, Michael Wolff < > wrote: Look at the judges on this thing: the right-thinking establishment to a tee (to a Ta-Nihisi). On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:57 PM Steve Bannon < wrote: Pile on
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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TACOMA by @aaronburch.bsky.social looks amazing! Smash that preorder button and get a wonderful gift in Feb!!
aaronburch.bsky.social Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 10h
cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!!

"Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?"

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ABOUT THE BOOK Inspired to “take a break from life” by the idyllic housesitting situation they were offered for the summer, Aaron and Amber find themselves in Aaron’s hometown of Tacoma, Washington. Amber works her remote job, Aaron tries to write and goes for runs along the waterfront, and they explore their temporary summer city on daily walks and regular excursions. Soon, noticing that the landscape seems to keep shifting around them, Aaron starts drawing a map of it all, attempting to document and make sense of the changes. When Tacoma starts to open up bigger and bigger with possibility and wonder, Tacoma starts to fold in on itself, becoming both more self-referential and more like the spontaneous, fantastical stories Aaron has been writing. A friend rides an orca to come visit. Pirates guard a wormhole in the forest. A secret doorway in the Tacoma Mall tunnels back to Aaron’s childhood bedroom. Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, Tacoma presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible? ABOUT THE AUTHOR Aaron Burch grew up in Tacoma, Washington.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Happy #TransgenderAwarenessWeek! Please enjoy this excerpt from my debut novel ENDPAPERS, about a genderqueer book artist who finds a lesbian love letter hidden under the endpapers of a book & becomes obsessed with tracking down the author.
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Endpapers
Leaving the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I submit to the crowd on the sidewalk, keeping its erratic pace as I take a left onto Fifth Avenue and walk four blocks to catch the 5 train downtown toward …
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November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I just caught a giant spider and set it free outside. Where’s my residency acceptance??
jsavrankelly.bsky.social Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 1d
Every time I finish doing something challenging (like exercising), I think I deserve to get good writing news.
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I haven't seen this much joy on a screen in too long. If you're doom scrolling, pause for the dance scene in THE LIFE OF CHUCK 💃
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THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2025) Full Dance Scene (NEON) (ELEVATION PICTURES)
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November 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Every time I finish doing something challenging (like exercising), I think I deserve to get good writing news.
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I'm not usually woo-woo, but I do believe that all my writing comes from somewhere else, some mysterious place I have the fortune of tapping into. Even with very short pieces, if I don't look at them for a few months, I forget them, until I come across one in a notebook and marvel at its existence.
mdbell79.bsky.social Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 1d
Without serious effort, I can only remember 30-40 pages at once, about the length of a long story. 230 pages in, when I flip back through my draft, it's as if someone else wrote the pages—and today I felt a weird wonder at glimpsing that other's process, even though he's me too, or used to be...
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Huz said the cat was experiencing omnidirectional yearning and I now I finally have words for the genre I write in
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I just got to do one of my favorite things: chat with a high school student about different ways to approach writing—as a craft and a practice. He was adamant that he only wants to contribute good to the world. My heart 💗
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Good morning #5amWritersClub. I have some characters to get to know. Happy writing, everyone!
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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I'm gonna stop scrolling and eat a snack.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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This bear!!
cbbernard.com C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 2d
Convincing you to read ORDINARY BEAR by sharing the first sentence. But I cropped the photo wrong, so you get two paragraphs...
STAINS OF UNCERTAIN PROVENANCE 1 THE BEAR STOOD ON FARLEY’S SOFA RIPPING FOAM FROM THE CUSHIONS, day-old seal blood crusted on its jaws and chest. The sofa—a shade of green not readily found in nature—had belonged to an oil company investigator named Hennessy. When Hennessy left Alaska a decade earlier for Sand Point, Idaho, to marry a Russian woman he’d met online, Farley inherited the sofa along with his job, his company house, and the rust-hollowed Ford F-150 he drove. Some days Farley thought he’d inherited his lingering existential ambivalence as well. Too big for the house, the sectional extended the length of the living room and angled into the galley kitchen like a threadbare peninsula, blocking the fridge from opening more than a foot. It looked tiny beneath the bear, which dug through the cushions with a kind of joy, throwing stuffing behind it like snow. The real snow had melted early this year across much of the Arctic. The pack ice too. Watching from across the dump, Farley wondered if the bears had resorted to trying to make their own in the face of climate change. This fucking world, he thought. Not for the first time.
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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erikaswyler.bsky.social Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 2d
Convincing you to read WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by *also* sharing two paragraphs instead of one sentence. Because I'm a giver.
Share yours.
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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"Because lately I get more pleasure from spreading open the cover of a book than my own legs." GO READ ENDPAPERS
jsavrankelly.bsky.social Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 2d
Persuading you to read ENDPAPERS by sharing the first sentence, except oops! I also cropped the photo wrong so here are two paragraphs! Share yours??
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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To be honest, I bought a copy of THE SHAMSHINE BLIND because of love at first sight with the title and cover, but once I cracked it, I could not put it down!!
pazsays.bsky.social Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 2d
Convincing you to read THE SHAMSHINE BLIND by sharing the first sentence except oopsie! I cropped the photo wrong so you get two paragraphs! share yours etc.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Can't recommend enough.
jsavrankelly.bsky.social Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 2d
Persuading you to read ENDPAPERS by sharing the first sentence, except oops! I also cropped the photo wrong so here are two paragraphs! Share yours??
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Persuading you to read ENDPAPERS by sharing the first sentence, except oops! I also cropped the photo wrong so here are two paragraphs! Share yours??
Art: because I’m not ready to go home. Home to Lukas. Because lately I get more pleasure from spreading open the covers of a book than my own legs. Because the pungent smell of ink and the soft touch of paper. I linger here—in the book conservation lab, after hours, after everyone has gone off to rejoin loved ones, even our boss, who usually stays because she has a project on the side.
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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University Press week seems a good time to remind everyone that UPs are nonprofits, and many take donations. So if you want to support our mission, consider contributing to a small press this #UPWeek. And yes, modest amounts DO matter (you'd probably be surprised by our shoestring budgets) #TeamUP
aupresses.bsky.social Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 2d
With higher ed funding under threat, university presses are tuning out the noise & sticking to their values, reports @publisherswkly.bsky.social. University presses remain committed to publishing works that will build a better society. Read more: https://bit.ly/43pEj33
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November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Can't wait to read this!
aaronburch.bsky.social Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 2d
"People are always coming up with new ways for whales to die. Been at it long enough, starting with sharpened sticks and then boats were invented which was some bad luck for whales, and then the boats got harpoons..."

New story from @jessdawn.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today!!
“Whippomorpha” by Jessica Dawn
“If there’s nothing to fight over, most of getting divorced is just waiting. Nothing worth fighting over, Janna decided a while ago. Best to just let it go.”
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November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Good morning #5amWritersClub. Yesterday I listened to David Foster Wallace's story "Backbone" on the New Yorker fiction podcast and it reminded me about the power of lingering on details. Today I plan to slow down and see what's hiding in each moment. Happy writing!
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Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Backbone,” which was published in The New Yorker in 2011.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Huz and I just finished watching Somebody Somewhere and I need something to fill the void. What should I watch next??
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."

For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Happy University Press week to all my fellow book nerds! #ReadUP #UPWeek
A series of screenshots from the film Matilda, with Ms. Honey asking "what do you like to read" and Matilda answering "University Press Books"
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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🧵 Last night I finished reading Kevin Wilson's new novel RUN FOR THE HILLS. I loved it, and from a craft standpoint, I appreciated how even within a simple narrative structure, Wilson still surprised me and made me feel so many things. (1/3)
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Run for the Hills
“A touching and generous romp of a novel . . . Wilson makes a bold and convincing case that every real family is one you have to find and, at some point, ch...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM